Gothataone Moeng, author portrait
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Gothataone Moeng

Gothataone Moeng is a 2023-2024 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a 2022-2023 Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Her writing has also received fellowships and support from Tin House, where she was a 2019 Summer Workshop scholar and from A Public Space, where she was a 2016 Emerging Writer Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, One Story, A Public Space and Oxford American, amongst others. She holds an MFA Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Mississippi. She was born in Serowe, Botswana.